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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Cybersecurity experts are urging small business (SMB) owners to not ignore the risks they face from cyberattacks. The service includes educational materials as well, like training videos and guidance on internal cybersecurity policy development. In a press release on Tuesday (Feb. In a press release on Tuesday (Feb. Education Is Key.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Corporations increased the number of times they mentioned cybersecurity on earnings calls nearly three-fold since 2014, according to CB Insights data. The increase in cybersecurity talk is not surprising given the fact that last year stolen data records worldwide exceeded 2 billion for the first time.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 23, 2017

Given the rising quantity and severity of cyber attacks, cybersecurity continues to be one of the hottest tech sectors in recent history. As companies and governments look to better secure their networks, data, and devices, investors have been making more deals to private cybersecurity companies than ever before. in Q2’17.

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FICO

AUGUST 15, 2018

The number of UK firms with cybersecurity insurance has risen in the past year — but less than half say their cyber insurance covers all risks. While this is substantially better than the 24 percent reported across all 11 countries surveyed, only 38 percent of UK respondents said their cybersecurity insurance covers all risks.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

disclosed it had suffered a data breach, the company also revealed the cause of the cybersecurity incident: a third-party vendor. enterprises are overlooking their supplier relationships when developing cybersecurity strategies. When Ticketmaster U.K. Earlier this month analysis from Citrix and OnePoll found that large U.K. ”

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FICO

JUNE 5, 2018

In 2017 we commissioned independent research company Ovum to carry out a cybersecurity survey among senior executives, with some surprising results. We and Ovum have just completed an even bigger cybersecurity survey, covering 500 senior executives in 11 countries. appeared first on FICO.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

The six core strategies are: information and digital, cybersecurity, precision health, national defence and strategy, green and renewable energy, and strategic stockpile industries. In 2017, Taiwan introduced the Financial Technology Development and Innovative Experimentation Act, leading to the establishment of a regulatory sandbox.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Google, the FBI and White Ops, along with a handful of cybersecurity companies, recently collaborated to shut down a digital ad fraud scam that used 1.7 Activity from the group increased in 2017, becoming a huge business with greater than $30 million in profit last year. million computers to generate fake clicks.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Machine learning is perhaps the hottest buzzword in cybersecurity today. The artificial intelligence technology is deployed by cybersecurity firms in an effort to keep pace with the evolution of cyberattacks, as machine learning algorithms are able to improve predictability the more it is used. It was digestible by the big vendors. “It

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

Following a series of sophisticated cyberattacks, such as WannaCry and NotPetya , AIG received a surge of cyber claims in 2017: The insurer saw as many claims notifications as the previous four years combined, RT reported. researcher hadn’t quickly found and activated the kill switch.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Corporate cybersecurity is an ever-increasing focus of government entities, with the U.S. Late last week, the FTC rolled out a series of informational resources for nonprofits and small businesses (SMBs) to heighten awareness and understanding of cybersecurity threats and how to mitigate them.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

And the number of things corporations have to juggle to safeguard their data — from the numerous types of fraud to the copious technologies that combat it all — mean cybersecurity is no easy task. With several types of fraud threatening the business today, spending on cybersecurity measures is spiking — big time. Beyond Fraud.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 31, 2018

Fintech: 2017 Year-in-Review & 2018 Trends. In the briefing we’ll highlight 2017 trends and explore what’s ahead for fintech in 2018, looking across payments, wealth management, insurance, and more. Gray boxes indicate that the company is a new addition (since the start of 2017) to that investor’s portfolio.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

So, what can corporates expect from their banks in 2017? It’s difficult to determine the health of the corporate banking space across the world, however, with researchers finding varying degrees of success and failures depending on geographical market. FinTech Continues Its Disruption. Fraud Prevention Remains Paramount.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

House Committee passed proposed legislation last week that would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create cybersecurity guidelines developed specifically for SMEs. As the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act of 2017 was debated by the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Meanwhile, European FIs are notably less optimistic than the rest, researchers found, as they navigate a notoriously heavy-handed regulatory climate. Cybersecurity. Amid the competitive pressures of FinTech incumbents is another force driving how banks invest in, adopt and implement innovative tools: cybersecurity.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The data, from consulting and advisory firm Forrester Research’s report, “ Internet-Of-Things Spending Forecast, 2017 To 2023 (Global) ,” found that companies will spend $434.9 billion in 2017. billion annually to design, plan, build, and run IoT solutions by 2023, an increase from $186.1 billion by 2023.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Today, CB Insights unveiled the second annual AI 100 — a list of 100 of the most promising private companies applying artificial intelligence algorithms across 25+ industries, from healthcare to cybersecurity — at the A-Ha! Cybersecurity AI. 2017’S AI 100. Cybersecurity. CYBERSECURITY. CYBERSECURITY.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Our cybersecurity team discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile prepaid wireless account. According to recent research from Kaspersky Lab, the average cost of a data breach is on the rise worldwide. That is 24 percent higher than in 2017.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

It was a 2017 report commissioned by Google that caught Womply President Cory Capoccia’s attention. The research , conducted by Deloitte, found that 80 percent of small businesses aren’t taking advantage of digital solutions like data analytics. “One is the online reputation, and the other is cybersecurity.”

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

To better understand auto suppliers’ moves, we identified the 5 automotive suppliers most active in private markets since 2014 and used our social graph tool to analyze this cohort’s bets through 2017 to date (10/31/2017). Auto Tech Trends.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Cisco’s 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report (ACR) report revealed companies that suffer a data breach are expected to have customer, opportunity and revenue losses exceeding 20 percent. The researchers in their demonstration were able to move data at around 4,000 bits a second, which the report noted is close to a megabyte per half hour.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Organizations are ramping up cybersecurity investments in response to the ever-climbing threat of data breaches and cyberattacks. A recent research report released by eSentire found that indeed, vendors present a significant cyber risk to organizations. million business email compromise scam.

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FICO

DECEMBER 21, 2016

That means 2017 should be a risky year from a compliance standpoint. Just as in adjacent spaces — fraud, cybersecurity — analytics help investigators pick the most suspicious activities based on study of a wide range of factors. This is changing, and 2017 should be the year when compliance breaks through the “cloud ceiling.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

52 percent of firms across Asia are struggling with late payments , recent research from Atradius revealed. Analysis of more than 1,400 companies in the region found a whopping 40 percent increase in the portion of businesses that are being paid late, compared to 2019 research.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Last month, researchers at Roland Berger found that the majority of European FinTech startups are “active” in the venture capital space, and the majority of these companies operate on a B2B model. Many of the focuses of these APAC FinTech startups, researchers found, have broad potential for B2B applications.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Small and medium-sized businesses coughed up a total of $301 million to ransomware attackers in 2016 to regain control of their computers, according to analysis from Datto’s 2017 “State of the Channel Ransomware Report.”. Researchers noted that it’s not surprising that some businesses are so willing to pay the ransom.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Still, researchers have found, many businesses do just that: RedSeal released a report this month that described the state of corporates’ approach to enterprise security as one of “cyber naïveté,” with many executives believing that their existing strategies are sufficient to ward off a cyberattack.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

AG Frosh’s warning pertained to a specific small-business cybersecurity threat. In a new report from SCORE , researchers revealed just how large of a target small businesses are for cybercriminals, deploying a range of technologies to carry out their crimes — 43 percent of cyberattacks targeted SMBs last year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Reuters , citing cybersecurity researchers, reported that the attack was part of a global hacking campaign initiated by the Ministry of State Security in China aimed at stealing intellectual property and corporate secrets. Visma made the hack public to raise awareness about the campaign.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 9, 2018

Research Briefing: Game Changing Startups of 2018. Latest Round: Series C | $26M | September 2017. Digital Shadows is a cybersecurity startup offering products that combat fake news. Latest Round: Series B | $23M | July 2017. Latest Round: Seed | $750K | September 2017. DIGITAL SHADOWS. PERIMETERX.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

New research from Kaspersky Lab shows that the average cost of experiencing a data breach globally is on the rise. million on average for enterprises (up 24 percent from $992K in 2017), and $120,000 on average for small and medium-sized businesses (up 36 percent from $88K in 2017). million in 2017. SMBs in the U.S.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

download our best of blockchain research. The biggest deal was Ledger’s $380M Series C in June, backed in part by Digital Currency Group — the top blockchain investor by deal count since 2017. Cybersecurity startups also fall under this category. First name. Company name.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2016

According a new research from Attivo Networks, the undetected vulnerabilities present in many of the nation’s POS systems may open the door to large breaches during the holiday shopping period and on into next year. A Bleak New Year For POS Security. Crandall pointed out that attackers are moving downstream.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Supply Chain and Logistics Research Briefing. In this research briefing, we look at investment trends, major acquisitions, and how specific companies are making inroads in the space. We created a timeline showcasing select partnerships and initiatives in 2017 in the maritime logistics space. Please click to enlarge. 595+ items.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

A new report by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based cybersecurity and anti-virus company, has revealed that attacks on mobile devices with malware doubled from 66.4 million in 2017 to 116.5 million in 2018, according to a press release from the company.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

The incident, and similar breaches, reveal the limitations of cybersecurity, even as corporates worldwide continue to increase their investments in the latest-and-greatest security technologies. last December pegged global spending on cybersecurity by corporates will hit $96.3 Estimates from Gartner, Inc.

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